My friend works for SGI, and they are a company you definatley don't want to work for.
He says that they're working hours are so long that their impossible - you have to work from 6 in the morning right through to 6 at night, sometimes longer, or else your pay will be docked.
They also have really nasty contracts where the small print states you're notice period is five years !
This is why so many stay and work for them. They have one nice office they show people when they start working there, but pretty soon (like, 1 week) later they ship you off to mexico where you have to work on Atari ST's (not even SGI's) and lightbulbs are not alowed because their to expensive.
My friend has even been whipped to make him code faster and has the scars to proove it.
So, Don't ever work at SGI - it'll be five years of hell, and my friend is still waiting to be payed.
Well, if you're going to get *really* bitchy about it, don't forget that you can only really appreciate your vinyl album *once*. After that, you're just loosing more and more sound quality the more times you play it.
I personally prefer the sound of vinyls to CDs, but if you're looking for near perfect sound every time, I'd bet on the CD winning.
The War on Drugs has been a consistently neglected topic in discussions surrounding this federal election. My question is, do you believe the War on Drugs has
been an unqualified success, and if not, what would you change about it if elected president?
Success and failure - success for the users, failure for those who want to ban certain substances (remember - these same authorities now hand out amphetamines to kiddies who 'suffer' from attention deficit disorder).
Change ? Give up the fight... there are enough stupid people out there to get lured into a life of drugs - if said stupid people die through drug abuse, it'll be natural selection... and let's face it - NO ONE who gets involved in drugs and has gone to school doesn't know the potential dangers.
So there.
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I may not be able to spel, but I sure can rite.
A lot of the points are stating that the letter has nothing to do with the points that MS pointed out... it does, and it threatens back with MS's use of Kerberos to describe its' proprietry version.
Now, the specs are supposedly copyrighted, not to be reporduced as per the click-wrap agreement. However, if I was under eighteen (sorry, but this is under UK law anyway) then I would be ineligable to agree or sign for any contract without a guardian doing it for me. If MS did not check that the contract was valid in my case then the contract is null and I can reproduce the agreement at will. So there.
I read about this story a couple of days back, and was informed that the spy had the laptop stolen whilst queing for a ticket... he went to move and noticed that the laptop was no longer between his feet. He then looked around the station a bit desperatly (as one would:) only to get a bit worried... As for seeing people running through stations... I know that I wouldn't stop them and ask them what they were doing - more often than not, it's someone running for a train just about to leave.
As it is, I have had a laptop nicked on the train... ok, not exactly nicked, but I left my laptop on an underground train, noticed that I no longer had it about two seconds after the train had left, and therefore started shouting obscenities. I had the train searched two stations later only to find out that some bastard had nicked it.
I don't think that the comments count as web hosting. Don't forget that Slashdot doesn't make any ownership claims towards the comments, they belong to whoever posted them. Just because someone parks a stolen car on your drive, it doesn't mean you're guilty of anything.
Ironic ? Well, it appears to be an Americans' post.
Sorry, but this just isn't funny in any sence of the word. It's just someone proclaiming the same old typical "I'm American and I have rights" crap, but instead of changing it, making it funny if you will, they've just left it... as it was originally... i.e. unfunny.
Simple... enter the DNS settings for your mail server. If you've already got mail forwarding running, just go to the mail forwarding form and click 'Turn off mail forwarding'.
The Christmas Island registry (http://www.nic.cx) does a pretty fine job of things. Firstly it's only £20 for the first two years, £10 a year after that. Then they offer free domains to open source projects. Also they will give you unlimited email forwarding rules (i.e. as many email addresses @domain.cx to forward to wherever). Then they will give you web aliasing, that is http://www.domain.cx will display the content of, for example, http://www.geocities.com/wherever/mywebpage/ Not bad for such a low price.
I originally posted this story after a friend who works at nic.cx told me all about it.
First of all, nic.cx did not *suddenly* decide to start charging for domains last year. If any of the people claiming this actually read anything relevant they would have seen that in the FAQ nic.cx were *always* going to charge for domains.
Next, this is not a two-week offer, it is going to run for as long as the cx domain does. Sometimes genuinly nice things do happen, look at <A HREF=http://www.granitecanyone>Granite Canyon</A> for proof of this. (For those not in the know, GC offer free DNS services).
Finally, I must reiterate, nic.cx are NOT going to start charging for these open-source project domains. Not now, not ever.
Recently I had my first ever success - the removal of two separate companies accounts from their ISP's for violating their spam policies.
The stupid thing is that virtually everyone is responsible to some higher authority (yes, even on a leased line) and it really is not that difficult to trace a spam mailing to it's true origin.
My personal tip for those who own their own domain and fill in lots of web forms you don't trust : Set your domain to forward all mail @domain.com to your email address. When you next have to give your email address, give it a name such as SlashdotSpam@domain.com This way you can easily block out companies that abuse your trust with filters.
Anyway, you may cite the seven (or six, thing about it) day creation theory, but don't forget that the Cathlic Church has now declared the big bang theory as being ok with them.
As for the trusting scientists and media... you can't do that if you're going to throw away the bible under scientific findings. Prove to me that carbon-dating is a perfectly-proven method. As you said, you can't. Fact. You can proove mathmatics but not science.
Anyway, these Raelian guys are *reall* screwed up, and it's not often you'll hear an Englishman say "screwed":)
First of all, I do believe in God, but I am by no means a religious bigot... I just like a good argument:)
Anyway, you go on about not believing everything you read, which is basically what the bible is about. Fair enough, science knows all answers, doesn't it ? Hmm, could you meet me in person and prove to me that we can go to the moon with our space rockets ? I've never been there, so how do I know that we can. Also, prove to me the Earth is round... the laws of gravity would cause the appearance of a curved Earth when you look to the horizon, but how do I know any different. This is all very 1984-ish but until you can actually *prove* one way or the other, please don't try to provoke pointless arguments.
Oh, just one last little bitching... prove to me that any scientific theory is true for *all* occurences... that's proove as opposed to merely suggesting that it's likely.
Hmm, I've seen some dodgy humour in my time, but I don't think they're joking, this is for real ! The really disgusting thing, though, is that they're part of the reason that genetics and cloning scares me. They charge outragious prices (rounghly £120,000 sterling, around eight times my yearly salery) which serve to not only widen the gap between the classes, the rich and the poor, but to create split humankind into almost two different species - those that can afford modifications, and the rest of us that cannot.
Bloody freaks, hope UFO's come and shoot the hell out of them !
Well, first impressions... he's just trying to rip off us fans.
But then start thinking about it. It's no big secret of his finanacial problems with his manager when David was on the way to become a living legend (IMHO anyway). Is it too much to assume that he is doing this for himself, attempting to prove that now he is who he is and can do things well a second time around. Plus, being the alleged net-junkie that David is, it'll give him a chance to indulge in his little enjoyment away from music.
I have only taken a brief look at the bowiebank.com site (I like banking in person too much - nothing like a good argument with your bank manager at the start of the new year;) but I can't see anything in the rates which is exactly extortionate.
Give him a chance... it's what we all deserve, after all, isn't it ?
Well, I may have only enough DNS experience to set up my own domain and mail stuff, but would it really be too hard to have infinite Top Level Domains ?
That way, at least companies could only try to obtain every commonly-known TLD... although it would make trademark infringement easier too... but then again, the company could just use a different TLD to the one already taken.
Well come 2000 I will be of voting age (that's 18 here in England) so things from here can only get interesting;)
Anyway, resolutions :
1) Sod the world, I've had problems with my happiness, was bullied at school and am now adored at college. So, if you're going to try to piss me off, you're now going to get a slap. I'm not going to take masses of crap from anyone any longer.
2) Love. I am not going to go out with any more girls when I have a feeling in the back of my mind that something's not right. I've been cheated on with every one of these girls that I've had doubts about. No more.
3) Work. I know that I am good at music and computing. When I work at it I can do amazing things. The time has now come where I'm going to stop being so bloody lazy and make myself into the person I know I am.
These are my big three which I know I can achieve... number three is certainly going to be an interesting challenge, but I know that deep down, I *can* do it.
Slashdot Mirror
My friend works for SGI, and they are a company you definatley don't want to work for.
He says that they're working hours are so long that their impossible - you have to work from 6 in the morning right through to 6 at night, sometimes longer, or else your pay will be docked.
They also have really nasty contracts where the small print states you're notice period is five years !
This is why so many stay and work for them. They have one nice office they show people when they start working there, but pretty soon (like, 1 week) later they ship you off to mexico where you have to work on Atari ST's (not even SGI's) and lightbulbs are not alowed because their to expensive.
My friend has even been whipped to make him code faster and has the scars to proove it.
So, Don't ever work at SGI - it'll be five years of hell, and my friend is still waiting to be payed.
Well, if you're going to get *really* bitchy about it, don't forget that you can only really appreciate your vinyl album *once*. After that, you're just loosing more and more sound quality the more times you play it.
I personally prefer the sound of vinyls to CDs, but if you're looking for near perfect sound every time, I'd bet on the CD winning.
Konq. is still quite new...
...it's also a *browser*
Success and failure - success for the users, failure for those who want to ban certain substances (remember - these same authorities now hand out amphetamines to kiddies who 'suffer' from attention deficit disorder).
Change ? Give up the fight... there are enough stupid people out there to get lured into a life of drugs - if said stupid people die through drug abuse, it'll be natural selection... and let's face it - NO ONE who gets involved in drugs and has gone to school doesn't know the potential dangers.
So there.
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I may not be able to spel, but I sure can rite.
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Absolutly nothing - I'm going to hell, why should I give a damn about them ?
Well well, Hemos shares the same wedding date as my father who got married today.
Congratulations to both !
Hey all,
A lot of the points are stating that the letter has nothing to do with the points that MS pointed out... it does, and it threatens back with MS's use of Kerberos to describe its' proprietry version.
Now, the specs are supposedly copyrighted, not to be reporduced as per the click-wrap agreement. However, if I was under eighteen (sorry, but this is under UK law anyway) then I would be ineligable to agree or sign for any contract without a guardian doing it for me. If MS did not check that the contract was valid in my case then the contract is null and I can reproduce the agreement at will. So there.
http://www.whosaprick.cx
I read about this story a couple of days back, and was informed that the spy had the laptop stolen whilst queing for a ticket... he went to move and noticed that the laptop was no longer between his feet. :) only to get a bit worried...
He then looked around the station a bit desperatly (as one would
As for seeing people running through stations... I know that I wouldn't stop them and ask them what they were doing - more often than not, it's someone running for a train just about to leave.
As it is, I have had a laptop nicked on the train... ok, not exactly nicked, but I left my laptop on an underground train, noticed that I no longer had it about two seconds after the train had left, and therefore started shouting obscenities.
I had the train searched two stations later only to find out that some bastard had nicked it.
I don't think that the comments count as web hosting.
Don't forget that Slashdot doesn't make any ownership claims towards the comments, they belong to whoever posted them.
Just because someone parks a stolen car on your drive, it doesn't mean you're guilty of anything.
Funny ? You what ?
Sarcastic ? No.
Ironic ? Well, it appears to be an Americans' post.
Sorry, but this just isn't funny in any sence of the word. It's just someone proclaiming the same old typical "I'm American and I have rights" crap, but instead of changing it, making it funny if you will, they've just left it... as it was originally... i.e. unfunny.
My mirror is at http://www.atari.co.uk/mirror/cp4break.html
> What if you want to do your own email?
Simple... enter the DNS settings for your mail server. If you've already got mail forwarding running, just go to the mail forwarding form and click 'Turn off mail forwarding'.
The Christmas Island registry (http://www.nic.cx) does a pretty fine job of things.
Firstly it's only £20 for the first two years, £10 a year after that.
Then they offer free domains to open source projects.
Also they will give you unlimited email forwarding rules (i.e. as many email addresses @domain.cx to forward to wherever).
Then they will give you web aliasing, that is http://www.domain.cx will display the content of, for example, http://www.geocities.com/wherever/mywebpage/
Not bad for such a low price.
Hi all,
I originally posted this story after a friend who works at nic.cx told me all about it.
First of all, nic.cx did not *suddenly* decide to start charging for domains last year. If any of the people claiming this actually read anything relevant they would have seen that in the FAQ nic.cx were *always* going to charge for domains.
Next, this is not a two-week offer, it is going to run for as long as the cx domain does. Sometimes genuinly nice things do happen, look at <A HREF=http://www.granitecanyone>Granite Canyon</A> for proof of this. (For those not in the know, GC offer free DNS services).
Finally, I must reiterate, nic.cx are NOT going to start charging for these open-source project domains. Not now, not ever.
Hey all,
Recently I had my first ever success - the removal of two separate companies accounts from their ISP's for violating their spam policies.
The stupid thing is that virtually everyone is responsible to some higher authority (yes, even on a leased line) and it really is not that difficult to trace a spam mailing to it's true origin.
My personal tip for those who own their own domain and fill in lots of web forms you don't trust : Set your domain to forward all mail @domain.com to your email address.
When you next have to give your email address, give it a name such as SlashdotSpam@domain.com
This way you can easily block out companies that abuse your trust with filters.
Hmm, enjoying this now :)
:)
Anyway, you may cite the seven (or six, thing about it) day creation theory, but don't forget that the Cathlic Church has now declared the big bang theory as being ok with them.
As for the trusting scientists and media... you can't do that if you're going to throw away the bible under scientific findings. Prove to me that carbon-dating is a perfectly-proven method. As you said, you can't. Fact. You can proove mathmatics but not science.
Anyway, these Raelian guys are *reall* screwed up, and it's not often you'll hear an Englishman say "screwed"
Hey all,
:)
First of all, I do believe in God, but I am by no means a religious bigot... I just like a good argument
Anyway, you go on about not believing everything you read, which is basically what the bible is about. Fair enough, science knows all answers, doesn't it ?
Hmm, could you meet me in person and prove to me that we can go to the moon with our space rockets ? I've never been there, so how do I know that we can.
Also, prove to me the Earth is round... the laws of gravity would cause the appearance of a curved Earth when you look to the horizon, but how do I know any different.
This is all very 1984-ish but until you can actually *prove* one way or the other, please don't try to provoke pointless arguments.
Oh, just one last little bitching... prove to me that any scientific theory is true for *all* occurences... that's proove as opposed to merely suggesting that it's likely.
Hmm, I've seen some dodgy humour in my time, but I don't think they're joking, this is for real !
The really disgusting thing, though, is that they're part of the reason that genetics and cloning scares me. They charge outragious prices (rounghly £120,000 sterling, around eight times my yearly salery) which serve to not only widen the gap between the classes, the rich and the poor, but to create split humankind into almost two different species - those that can afford modifications, and the rest of us that cannot.
Bloody freaks, hope UFO's come and shoot the hell out of them !
Hey all,
;) but I can't see anything in the rates which is exactly extortionate.
Well, first impressions... he's just trying to rip off us fans.
But then start thinking about it. It's no big secret of his finanacial problems with his manager when David was on the way to become a living legend (IMHO anyway).
Is it too much to assume that he is doing this for himself, attempting to prove that now he is who he is and can do things well a second time around. Plus, being the alleged net-junkie that David is, it'll give him a chance to indulge in his little enjoyment away from music.
I have only taken a brief look at the bowiebank.com site (I like banking in person too much - nothing like a good argument with your bank manager at the start of the new year
Give him a chance... it's what we all deserve, after all, isn't it ?
Hey all,
Well, I may have only enough DNS experience to set up my own domain and mail stuff, but would it really be too hard to have infinite Top Level Domains ?
That way, at least companies could only try to obtain every commonly-known TLD... although it would make trademark infringement easier too... but then again, the company could just use a different TLD to the one already taken.
Now, why not ?
You're being very predudiced when you quote privacy... I live in England, and here there is no basic right to privacy.
Hey all,
;)
Well come 2000 I will be of voting age (that's 18 here in England) so things from here can only get interesting
Anyway, resolutions :
1) Sod the world, I've had problems with my happiness, was bullied at school and am now adored at college. So, if you're going to try to piss me off, you're now going to get a slap. I'm not going to take masses of crap from anyone any longer.
2) Love. I am not going to go out with any more girls when I have a feeling in the back of my mind that something's not right. I've been cheated on with every one of these girls that I've had doubts about. No more.
3) Work. I know that I am good at music and computing. When I work at it I can do amazing things. The time has now come where I'm going to stop being so bloody lazy and make myself into the person I know I am.
These are my big three which I know I can achieve... number three is certainly going to be an interesting challenge, but I know that deep down, I *can* do it.
Not worried about morning ones... 6 pm is the time he's predicted me.
However, the problem is that I am quite happy to start my drinking at nine o' clock in the morning, so either way I'm agreeable.
OK, Y2K aside, how about the big one when the Unix timestamp runs out of bits ?